The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo …

Dec 9, 2025 · The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater located off the Yucatán Peninsula that formed through an asteroid impact about 66 million years ago. The impact and resulting …

The researchers called the crater Chicxulub, a Maya word that roughly translates as “tail of the devil.” The crater, now buried beneath a kilometer-thick sequence of sediments, has been …

Dec 4, 2023 · The Chicxulub Crater was formed as a result of a catastrophic impact event that occurred approximately 66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. The impacting …

The Chicxulub Crater is one of the largest impact craters on Earth, the only one with an unequivocal peak ring, and the only one linked to a mass extinction. These are the first cores …

Aug 16, 2024 · Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico.

Apr 12, 2022 · The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago caused catastrophic environmental changes, leading to the extinction of three-quarters of plant and animal species, including the …

Dec 18, 2024 · The Chicxulub crater under the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the Chicxulub asteroid left its mark, tells the story of how the mass extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way …

Apr 30, 2025 · Chicxulub punches through the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico. This instantly vaporizes the asteroid and the incredible energy of the impact is transferred to the Earth. The …

Sep 9, 2019 · The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, …